1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 25 patents granted in the last 365 days
SMA Solar Technology AG currently has 1 pending office action. This action is assigned to RALIS, STEPHEN J, who is the busiest examiner for the company with 1 pending action. The portfolio's current activity is limited to 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit. Since there is only 1 pending office action, the prosecution is highly centralized.
Practitioners should focus on the specific requirements of the 1 distinct art unit involved, as the company's current USPTO engagement does not span multiple technical divisions. The 1 distinct examiner will have a significant impact on the immediate patenting outcomes. This concentration in 1 distinct examiner and 1 distinct art unit means that the success of the 1 pending office action depends on a single point of review. The lack of diversification suggests a very specific technical focus for the company's current filings. For the practitioner, this means that the 1 pending action is the sole focus of the company's interaction with the USPTO at this time.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| Multi-statute (no §101) | 1 (100%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| RALIS, STEPHEN J | 1 | 34.5% | +40.4% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17210938 | INVERTER WITH A HOUSING HAVING A COOLING UNIT | RALIS, STEPHEN J | 175d overdue |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17210938 | INVERTER WITH A HOUSING HAVING A COOLING UNIT | RALIS, STEPHEN J | 175d overdue |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3992 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17210938 | INVERTER WITH A HOUSING HAVING A COOLING UNIT | RALIS, STEPHEN J | 3992 | §103§112 | Final Rejection | 175d overdue | Pending | Mar 24, 2021 |
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Start Free TrialSMA Solar Technology AG has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Stephen J Ralis has the most, with 1 of SMA Solar Technology AG's pending office actions.
